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From: Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com>
To: Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs regex to transform text of field1\nfield2\n into field1\tfield2\n etc
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:51:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAtGUhWsLmOyjBBLb1PsBKh=1RLKZzWrpEa0gHqqEOveezxn9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAtGUhWJAr9zAb1Yk2ZR5m=DRC7kwTzzdkaYWb_0GYuDxDC1=w@mail.gmail.com>

I worked it out.

m-%

^\(.*\) Ctrl-Q newline \(.*\)

with

\1 <tab> \2

On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 11:23, Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a text file of modem country codes like this:
>
> T.35 Code
> Country
> 00
> Japan
> 07
> Argentina
> 09
> Australia
> 0A
> Austria
>
>
> But I want to transform the buffer to look like this:
> T.35 Code Country
> 00              Japan
> 07              Argentina
> 09              Australia
> 0A              Austria
>
> What regex would do that?
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-16 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-16 11:23 emacs regex to transform text of field1\nfield2\n into field1\tfield2\n etc Angus Comber
2019-02-16 11:51 ` Angus Comber [this message]
2019-02-16 16:16   ` Eric Abrahamsen

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